Peer-Based Counseling Group Helps Connect HIV-Positive Mothers In South Africa

Jan 05, 2015

Wall Street Journal: In South Africa, HIV-Positive Mothers Help Others Fight AIDS
“…mothers2mothers, a peer-to-peer, community-based organization [was founded by Dr. Mitchell Besser] in Cape Town in 2001. Funded by government, corporate, foundation, and private sources, the program trains and employs HIV-positive mothers to serve alongside doctors and nurses, advising and supporting pregnant women and new mothers infected with the virus…” (Bloch, 12/26).